1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires

The 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires occurred on 17 March 1992 when the Islamic Jihad Organization sent a suicide bomber to attack the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in South America, killing 29 people and injuring 242. The IJO planned to avenge the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Abbas al-Musawi with a terrorist attack targeting a distant Israeli target, and a suicide driver drove a pickup truck loaded with explosives into the front of the Israeli embassy on Arroyo and Suipacha, destroying the embassy, a Catholic church, and a nearby school building. 4 Israeli civilians (including the wives of the consul and first secretary) and 25 Argentine civilians (mostly schoolchildren, plus one Catholic priest) were killed in the deadliest attack on an Israeli diplomatic building. The Argentinian government expelled numerous Iranian diplomats from the country, while cultural attache Mohsen Rabbani was arrested in Germany for his role in supporting the attack; Syria was also accused of supporting the attack. The bombing would be followed by the AMIA bombing in that same city two years later.